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Newspaper Page Text4 ClteinoriungTtetos P.V:'' _ , Morning News Bui ding Savannah, Ga. FRIII VV. FEBRUARY lISM. Retfutrred at the Pott office in .Savanna*. every day in the year, and is served to aubecribeni in the city at $1 (X) a month, $5 Ou for six months and $lO 00 for one year The Morning News, by mat’, one month, $1 00; thrre months, siCo;ix months, $5 00; one year. |lO 00. The Morning News, by mat , six times a week (without Sunday issue , throe months, 00; six months. $4 00: one year, $M ft). The Morning New*, Tri-Weekly, Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays, three months. $1 25; sx months, $2 £0; one year, ;6 X). The Sunday News, by mail , one year, $2 00. The Weekly News, by mail, one year. $1 25. Subscription* payable In advance. Kemit by postal oraer. check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mat; at risk of senders. letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning News, ’ Savannah, Ga. Transient advertisements, other than special Column, locai or reading notices, amusements and cheap or want co umn. 10 cent* a line Fourteen lines of agate type —egnal to one Inch space in depth is the standard of mea urement Contract rat#-* and discounts made known on application at business office. Ol lt XEW lORK OFFICE, Ma .7. J. Flynn, General Advertising Agent of the Morning News, office 23 Park Row, Few York. All advertising business outaide ef the states of Georgia, Florida and South Caro- lina will be managed by him. The Morning News Ison file at the following Pino's, where Advertising Rates and other in formation regarding the paper can be obtained: NEW’ YORK CITY— J. H. lUter, 38 Park Row. G. P, Roweij. A Go., 10 Spruoe street. W W. Sharp & Cos . 31 1 ark Row Frank Kiernan & Cos., 1 52 Broadway. Dapchy & Cos., 27 Park Place. J. W. Thompson. Stl Park How. American Newspaper Publisher’! Association, Potter Building. PHILADELPHIA — N. W. Ayer A Son, Times Building. BOSTON p. K. Niles. 256 Washington street. Pettenoill & Cos., 10 State street, CHICAGO— Loho & Thomab, 45 Randolph street. CINCINNATI Rnwiv Alden Company, 66 West Fourth street ST. LOUIS— Nelson Chesman & 00., 1127 Pine street. ATLANTA kIcRMNG News Bureau, Whitehall street. MACON- Daii.y Telegraph Office, 527 Mulberry street. ST. AUGUSTINE— H. Marootte, St. Augustine, Fla. [NDBX TO NBW ADVBRTISEMKNTS. Mxktini?—Of Those Interested In the Monti toont to Father Kyan. Spkciil Notioes—As to Election of Officers of Grand Lodge of the State of Georg.a, Ancient Order of Knights of Damon; As to Bills Against British Steamship Elphlnstonn; Notice of Dis solution. Morrison. Frye & Cos.; Notice, Morri son & Byrne; Office* for Rent, Lawton & Cun ningham; The Entertainment of the Daugntera of Israel to be Repeated; Plymouth Rock Pant Company, 33 Whitaker street; Chatham Real Estate and Improvement Company. Insurance—Semi-Annual Statement of the Thames and Mersey Marine Insurance Company Of Liverpool, England. A Free Suit—B. B. Levy & Bro Auction Sales—Clothing, Etc., by R, H. Tatrm; Contents of Retail Store, Etc., by J. 11. Oppenheira & Son. Pants—Falk Clothing Company. Cheap Column Advertisements Help fc’anted; Employment Wanted; For Rant; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous. Did the conjunction of Jupiter and Verms cause the Blaine letter and the tires in New York and Memphis I A thin-skinned New York legislator has Introduced a bill to abolish olaotrio execu tions and re-establish hanging as the legal mode of capital punishment. Chicago is a great and democratic town. Out there even Mayor Hempstead Wash burne’s bitterest newspaper enemies speak of him with familiar ease as “Hemp.’ 1 They have learned of Keediam in New Jersey at last. The dominant element In the general assembly is accused of riding rough shod over the highly intelligent mi nority. If all the congressional and legislative in vestigations proposed this year were favor ably considered. state legislatures and con gress would do nothing else for the uext two years. Harrison will have one thing In hi) favor in the race for the presidency; all of the old hack bosses, Platt, Foraker, Quay, Allison, Clarkson, Alger and the rest are said to be against him. It isn’t showing a just appreciation of genius to call ou Edison to iuvont every thing that’s wanted since Col. Mulberry Sellers has bean revived and there are still other Keeleys. What is the matter with tho Husk boom I Bo roly it has not been strangled by pumpkin vines and othor creeping tilings. A cam paign without that boom would be like tho play of I laralet, etc. Ten cents’ worth of ordinary postage ■tamps on a letter, with a request written across tho end of the envelope, is not equiv alent to a special delivery stamp. It ought to be, but there isn’t red tape enough about it. To-morrow, Saturday, Fob. 13, will bo the auntversary of Mr. Blame's famous Florence letter. Like the oue just issued, it said more "between the lines," according to the way people read it. than it said m the lines. Mr. Jay Gould is beginning to shine in society to a limited extent. He attended the President’s reception Tuesday. One of these days, as soon as Mr. Gould can afford it, he may give rooeptions and candy parties in his own house. The Wanamaker resignation rumor is current again, with the explanation that he Is to succeed Reid as minister to Franoe. There is a newspaper man in the deal, of course, in the person of J. S. Clarkson, who is to be made Postmaster General. An Oklahoma mob on Tuesday seized and and destroyed SIOO,OOO worth of property and instituted a reign of terror. A delega tion from the territory is in Washington urgiDg that it be admitted to statehood, claiming that all of the requisites have been met. Wednesday the Morning Hews published an abstract by telegraph of an article in the Chioago Inter Ocean giving details of an alleged scheme whereby the national cord age trust is to gobble alliance stores in the west. Not long ago it was reported in the south that an arrangement had been mads whereby alliance trade in this section would be controlled by the trust; but alliancomon persistently deny that any such arrange i rne .t was ever entered Into. The Free Coinage Bill, The free silver coinage bill that was re ported to the House Wednesday by the coinage committee, and placed on the calendar, will be tuk :*n np soon for discus sion, and the probabilities are that it will ; be passed by that branch of congress. ; Whether or not it will be passed by the ; Senate is a question concerning which there is considerable doubt. Ia the House efforts will be made to defeat it by both democrats and republicans, and those opposed to it will throw every possible obstruction in its way. If it should be pasted by the House and not by the Senate the Democratic party would be committed, in a measure, to the free coinage of silver, because the democrats control the House and the re publicans the Senate. The question which presents itself it this; Would the chances of the Democratic party for success in the presidential election bo lessened if the House should pass a free coinage hill; They would undoubtedly. As Senator Vast said, in bis letter that was said at the banquet of the tireystone Club of Denver Tuosday night, the Demo cratic party is hopelessly divided ou the silver question. The democrats of the east are almost unanimously opposed to free silvero linage, and there are, m all probability, thousands of them who would not vote the democratic ticket if by so doing they believed they would help to bring about the free coinage of sliver. The Democratic party cannot elect the next President unless it carries some of tbs eastern states. In the letter above referred to Senator Vest said; “There are 44.1 electoral votos under the new appor tionment, and of these the democrats can only rely npon 236, counting New York and Indiana, with the states that voted for Cleveland in 1888. The republicans will have 217 electoral votes, conceding them Moutana and Wisconsin, and this would give the democrats 9 majority. The loss of Connecticut and West Virginia with 6 votes each, or of either, and one of the southern states would give the election to our oppo nents.” If the Democratic party should be com mitted to the free coinage of silver it would have very little prospect of carrying any one of the eastern states, and if it lost all of those states it would fall to win the presidency. Do those democrats who insist upon the passage of a free silver coinage bill believe that the passago of such a bill would give the democracy western states that it has not heretofore carried? On wbat do they base such a belief? Doubtless there are re publicans and independent voters who would cast their ballots for the democratic ticket if that ticket stood for free silver coinage, but tho num ber would not bo sufficiently large to change tho political complexion of a single western state. In the Ohio campaign last fall the Kepublioan party came out squarely against the free coinage of silver and it carried the stale by a large majority, notwithstanding the fact that the Democratic party carried it at the previous state election. The result in Ohio does not justify the hope that the Democratic party has anything to gain by putting itself in favor of the free coin* age of silver. On the oontrarv It has a great deal to lose. The polloy which promisos the most for tho Democratic party in the approaching national oampaigu Is that whloh makes tariff reform the great issuo and keeps the silver question ia the background. Corrupt Officials. The punishment of publio officials, who are proved to be careless, worthless or cor rupt, aught to be far more severe than it is. These officials are well paid, and com paratively fow of them have very hard work to do, but the Dumber of them who are inefficient or oorrupt is alarmingly large. The recent tire in New York city, wbioh destroyed the Hotel Royal and caused the death of a largo number of persons, brought out the fact that one of the lire inspectors or that city was thoroughly corrupt. The Are authorities bad ordered the proprietor of the Hotel Royal to provide his house with certain necessary fire escapes. The in spector in question reported that the oraer had been complied with, when, as a matter of fact, it had not been. No doubt the number lost in tho fire would have bean much smaller had there been ample means of escape. The punishment provided for murder would not be too great for the crime of which this inspector is guilty. He is not a murderer, but he is about os great a crimi nal as a murderer. He deliberately exposed the lives of hundreds of people to the most appalling kind of death. It was a matter of no consequence to him, apparently, whether helpless men and women were burned to death or not. And ho is only one of many offioials-in all parts of the country who are utterly In different to the responsibilities they assume, or who, for a consideration, neglect to per form their duties. Ought there not to be a reform inaugurated looking to the holding of public officials to a stricter account ability: It certainly seems so. Democratic members of the Ohio House of Representatives charge John Sherman with fraud in securing hit re-election to the United States Senate, aud demand an in vestigation by the Senate. They also call upon Senator Brice to ask for an investiga tion of Sherman’s right to a seat under the rules of the Senate. Inasmuch as the re publicans have done the same thing in re gard to Mr. Brioe, it looks pretty much like “lighting the devil with fire.” The story of Wanamaker's resignation and Clarkson’s advancement to hi* port folio comes along at the same time with another story that Clarkson, as a member of the anti-Harrison cabal, is to keep lowa in lino for another man; so thore may be more than wind in the rumor. Mr. Harrison knows how to drop an office in the slot and get a delegation as well as any of the “boys.” The elegance of Mobile editorial diction is no more a question, if it ever was. Indeed, the style of the editor of the Daily Register "blazes up into a sudden explosion of pro phetic grandeur,’’ as Webster’s uuabridged quotes De Quincey, in this wise: “We regret to say that the Age-Herald is off its nut again.” The fool mentioned in the Morning News several days ago as about to attempt to crosg the ocean in a cockleshell of a boat sixteen feet long sailed out to sea last Satur day, sw how big :t was and turned back to bis Long Island creek, proving himself a coward as well as a fool. New \ ork’s standing joke about the size of Chicago’s feet loses its pungency to Goth amites when they think of the 7-league gait with which the young westerner always “gets there” ahead of old Knickerbocker. THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 12. 1892. Carnegie In the Pulpit. Andrew Carnegie, the multi-millionaire iron king, has ascended the pulpit to preach bis “Gospel of Wealth.” The sight is enough to inspire one with renewed fear of the power of money. It is Mr. Carnegie’s unquestionable privilege to air his views in newspapers and other publications to his heart’s content. There is always space to be had when one has anything worth say ing. But when the man of money, who owes his fame or notoriety to his money ami wbat it has bought, takes the place of the man of the cloth on Sunday afternoon ; to expound theories which in his daily life he does not reduce to practice, it may with propriety hs asked, whither is orthodoxy drifting? Mr. Carnegie’s sermoo was preached at theChurohof the Divine Paternity, Fifth avenue. New York, of which the Rev. C. H. Katon is pastor, lost Sunday. Among his auditors were Sir Edwin Arnold and the Rev. Dr. Robert Collyer. Sir Edwin was Mr. Carnegie’s guest. The Church of the Divine Paternity is a fashionable sanctuary in a fashionable neighborhood. Mr. Car negie hail been “doing the honors” for his erudite friend, and possibly conceived the idea of preaching to him by way of a pleas ant diversion from looking at immense piles of stone and bricks and structural iron. Mr. Carnegie's wealth opened tho door of the pulpit, and he preached. During his “sermon” he indulged in some really sound logio and much good "horse sense." No attempt* at oratory were attempted. Among other things he said: “The man who dies possessed of millions which he could ad minister during life dies disgraced;” “Ac cumulated wealth has tiecomo the slave of all, not of one;” “Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer.” These are “catohy” sentences, and intoned by a deep resonant voice would sound grand. But at the Edgar Thomson steel mills, the Homestead mills and others owned by the philosopher, there are con stantly recurring reports of strikes on account of reductions in wages, overbearing bosses who iDflict hardships on the meo, a desire to increase hours, a tendency to "grind down,” etc., which leaves Mr. Car negie’s administration of wealth open to harsh critioism. It cannot he denied that he has done an immense amount of good for Pittsburg and Allegheny city. His publio library Dene faotlon was princely; but it is open to dis cussion if more liberal terms to the men operating tils protected iron millt—a divis ion of the profits made possible by a war tariff—would not have been a more noble gift to the brotherhood of man than a splendid building filled with books erected as a monument to 4 the personality of its founder. English Capital In New Orleans. Consolidation is the order of the day. Many groat Industrial and business‘enter prises are being consolidated and placed under one management. In competition there appears to be failure and in consolida tion suocess. Englishmen are furnishing a good deal of the capital to carry out schemes of consolidation. In New Orleans arrangements have been perfected to consolidate all ths cotton presses under the management of one com pany. There are seventeen presses and, it is said, an English company has obtained control of all of them. The amount paid for them is stated to be $2,600,000. The cotton press companies aro glad to get rid of their property. The competition was so great and the oost of running tho presses so large that they made little or no money. The new oompany will have only one manager and one set of clerks, and will, in running the presses, save in that respect alone about $140,000 a year. And tho boss draymen may find them selves out of a job. The new company ex peots to do its own hauling.and to make a profit of $150,000 per annum from that source. It is announced that there will be a reduction iu the price of compressing cot ton , so tho merchants will have no reason to complain. But New Orleans will not profit greatly by the new order of things unless it results in bringing more cotton to that city, because a very large number of men will be thrown out of employment. The now company promises, of oourso, to mike New Orleans a more desirable market. The tendency toward consolidation in business undertakings is becoming more and more marked. It is too strong to be re sisted even it it were thought advisable to oppose it Gen. Miles is opposed to the policy of en listing Indians as soldiers in the regular army. He says the service ia not a kinder garten, nor the place for civilizing savages. “ W e might just as well introduce Chinamen into the service, or any other element that does not readily assimilate with us." Gen. Miles’ idea is that it is better to keep the Indian in his semi-savage state on the res ervations, tax ourselves for his support, let thioviog agents fatten on his ignorance, and the Indian remain a menace to the lives and property of settlers, than to try to make him better, if the betterment must come through channels which will give more work to our already overburdened army ofli cers. The groat “Thunderer” of Eugland, the London Times, becomes positively silly in its heavy leaders against the “spread-eagle ism all over the American news to-day.” If George Winter, late brigadier general of volunteers, New York, holds the individual and patriotic opinion that a fight between England and the United States would quickly reduce England to a fourth rate power, it is Mr. George Winter’s misfortune that his reasoning powers havo been dulled bv too ardent whetting on the eagle’s beak. But neither Mr. Wiuter, the eagle nor America deserve to be made the target to receive such hollow shot from the grand old British smooth-bore. There is a growing disposition on the part of the French people to observe Sun day as a day of rest. Agitators to that end have been at work since the closing of the groat exposition, and a league of the peo ple has been formed to promote the innova tion. Leon Say is prominent in the move ment. The will of.Daniel Hand, the Connecticut millionaire philanthropist,is to be contested. A great portion of his wealth was be queathed to certain institutions for the ben efit of southern negroes. The heirs-at-law Institute suit on the ground of the incapac ity of the testator. The failure of Edward M. Field’s firm will rank with those of “Napoleons" Ward and Ives. After all available assets have been calculated, the firm will not be able to pay more than 2 cents on the dollar. The majority of debts are for money bor rowed. PIRSONAL. Baron BiKsca gives away JI.OJO.MO a year, the Parisian papers say. Beerbihm Tree’s Hamlet has a scant beard and wears a wig of chestnut-colored hair. Senator Brice of Ohio wears his hair in almost the fee simile of a curly auburn wig Mrs. Hearst, the widow of Senator Hearst o California, carries a life insurance of 9400,0001. | Loro Randolph Churchill says the “news papers did nothing but lie about" him while he was In South Africa. Rev. Dr. Scott, the President's father in-law, celebrated his 9Jd birthday Friday. He Is a re markably vigorous old gentlemaa. The tultan of Morocco, having been thrown by a white mule, has ordered the back of the contumacious beast to be bastinadoed. Ex Senator Edmund* is said to accept no smaller retainer than 92,000 "in cases of im~ I portance," and to refuse all other kiDds of i cases. I Cor. James H. Lane, of Lane's confederate brigade. Is now professor of civil engineering at the Agricultural and Mechanical College, Auburn, Ala. Henry A. Herbert of Muckross, Ireland, has bought 15,000 acres of land in Inyo county, California, on which he proposes to settle 400 Irisn families. The widely known prlma donna, Etelka Oerster, was recently the recipient of an invita tion from Prince Bismarck to visit his villa at Friedrichsruhe. Prof. Rufus R. Richardson of Dartmouth, after a visit to California, has declined to go to Stanford University as professor of Greek, and will remain at Hanover. Sir Morell Mackenzie’s daughter, Ethel Mackenzie McKenna, has made an interesting name for herself in newspaper work as a writer of correspondence in London. Prince Bismarck has just received a valuable present from the German colony In Burmah. It consists of a centerpiece of solid silver two feet long and three feet long. Bayard Taylor’s old home, "Cedarcrot.’* near Keanett Square Pa., is advertised for sale. It is now owned by the son and widow of Dr. Lewis, executors of the estate. Mrs. Warren, wife of the Wyoming senator, herself a voter for many years, says It is no more trouble to go to the polls than to church. But it Is not quite so edifying. The President has recognized Ricoardo Motta as counsel of Italy at New Orleans for for the states of Louisiana. Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama and Florida. Mr. Robert Bruce of New York the vener able type founder, celebrated last Saturday his 90th birthday. Mr. Bruce invented a machine for type casting that la used In every type foundry throughout the world. Senator Gibson of Maryland, whose personal good looks and gastronomic abilities have oftener been alluded to than his other good qualities, is a bridegroom, having married re cently Mrs. Hallyday of Richmond, the sister of Mrs. John Randolph Tucker. BRIGHT BITS. Ha—What sort of a chair do you like to sit on best? She (slowly)—A kneesy one.—at. Joseph Daily lie ics. Editor— The mission of the press, sir, is to mold public opinion. Hanks—That’s all right; only be sure not to get it too moldy.— New York Herald, Miss De Mcir—Mr. Shye, do you know what bees eat iu the winter? Mr. Shye—Yes; honey. Miss De Muir—La, Harold, how bold you're getting!— Chicago Tribune. Banks—Did you see tho elephant while you were in New York? Tanks—The night before I left I did—thou sands, millions, billions of'em, all colors and sixes,— Hew Yortc Herald. “How did the surprise party go off lost night?” “Double-quick time. The surprised people thought they were burglars, and turned the hose on them.”— Harper's Bazar. Wool—l stepped on a woman's gown to-day, and she swore at me. Van Pelt—What did sbe say? Wool—Nothing; but you ought to have seen her eyes.— New York Herald. “What are you doing. Larry?" said a tramp, as be saw an acquaintance by a coaloellar; “putting in coal?” , “Naw,” was the almost indignant reply, “put tin’ in time.”— Washington Star. Not Up to the Mark.—Customer—So you have discharged that new man? lie was a good shaver. barber—Yes, he handled the razor with con siderable fineness, but bis shampoo rubs lacked technique. —Buck. He-You can always tell when a woman has told all sbe knows about a piece of neighbor hood gossip. Sbe—How? He—She concludes with, “I should be glad to tell you all about it, but my lips are sealed.” New York Herald. Ella (at the opera)—There’s Charlie Slim, and I do believe he’s got on Harry Saunders’ coat. Sallie—Nonsense! He wouldn’t borrow a dress coat. Ella (excitedly)—Don’t you suppose I know that right sleeve?— Judge. Mistress—Ellen, when you have company In the kitchen they must be more quiet. I heard hilarity here last night, and Ellen—Sure, ma’am, Ol’ve not seen a Larrity since 01 left Tullamore. 'Twas Mister Hogan, the junk mau, au’ the jokes av him would make the pope himself dio wid laughin’!— Puck Englishman (grumpily)—There is one thing that I'll buy up as a curiosity if I can find it in your biawsted country. American—What is it? Englishman Something that you do not boast about, American—l’m glad to hear that. Just go and secure all our Anglomaniacs —New York Sun. Guest—So you are hard at work studying French? What is the object of that? Waiter—l’ve been offered a steady job at big pay over in l aris if I’ll learn French before go ing there. Guest—Humph! There are plenty of French waiters in Paris. Waiter—Y’ e-s, but you see they can't under stand French as Americans speak it.—. Vein YorK Weekly. "So you ar • going to write to the girl's father to ask him for her, are you?" “Yep ’* “Why don’t you go and see him in person?" "The mail is better, I guess.” ”1 thing not,” “Put I do.” “Come off. YVhy is it?” "Well, the old gent won’t choke 'the letter, or hit it in the neck, or kick it down stairs, or any thing like that, don’t you know?” “O!” —Detroit thee Press. CURRENT COMMENT. Gov. Thayer's Record. From the Washington Post Kind.). “Gov.” Thayer's record now looms up as fol lows; “Statesman out of a job, “ “ “ with the unshaken hand.” For Sale to tho Highest Bidder. From the St. Louts Republic (Dcm.). Boss Platt In New YTork has joined Boss Quay in Pennsylvania in raising the red Hag against Harrison. It means in both cases that Harrison must bid high if he wants the goods. Russell Says Ha Is Tired of It. Prom the St. Louis Republic (DemJ. The question now before the Republican party is: "Shall ltuss Harrison have a second term?” It makes no great difference how the Repub lican party settles it, for the country hai settled it already. Mr. Blaine Still a Factor. From the Philadelphia Inquirer (Rep.). Until Air. Blaine makes a more defintto state ment than is contained in his letter to Mr Clarkson he will still be a factor in the coming convention. But of this we shall probably know more as time passes on. The Proposed Anti-Option Law. Prom the Washington Post (/ad.). There may be. there doubtless is, some straight-out gambling in connection with this trading in options, just as there is gambling in every other department of commerce. Rut congress cannot abolish gambling by means of legislation It can only pass some foolish and oppressive laws that will dislocate legitimate business. Tne gambling will continue just the same. The Art of Telephonic Conversation. "It is a singular fact," said Manager John F. Casey, of the Bell Telephone Exchange, to a St. Louis Globe Democrat reporter, ‘ that people had to be educated to use a telephone properly. Not one person in ten goes at it cor rectly. Some people think they have ro scream and bawl. Others go to the other extreme and drop their voice# almost to a whisper. Some stand too far from the transmitter, and others speak too rapidly or Indistinctly. Then they get mad and blame the glrla or the telephone# In nine cases out of ten the fault lies with the person speaking.” “What is the best wav of talking through a 'phone V asked the reporter. “Why, just In an ordinary conversational tone, as If you were speaking to somebody three or four feet from you. Telephones are carefully constructed and adjusted for that manner of speaking and for no other. I can talk from Washington city to Portland, Me . in that way and make myself plainly heard. The best position ia to stand with the mouth about three inches from the transmitter. Most people staud further back, but it is better to 6tand even nearer. It is almost impossible to get too near the instrument, provided a distinct conver sational tone is malntalnod. There are forty two girls at that switchboard. Watch them amo ment.” The girls were as busy as hello girls always are. forty-two of them constantly responding to questions or asking them. Yet the room was comparatively quiet and conversation could be easily carried on. “The secret,” continued the manager, "Is that they talk distinctly, and you see most of them put their nose* against the instruments when they speak. They don’t have any trouble, and nobody else would if he would adopt simi lar methods.’’ H Had Lost His Voice. The curtain was down, the house was empty the last few patrons were struggling out of the California theater, and all the lights were out, says the San Francisco Examiner. Chief Usher Williams was coming dovn the main staircase when a figure darted past him in the gloom. "Where are you going?’’ he called, ana grabbed the stranger by the coattails The man strug gled madly, but never uttered a sound, "Where in thunder are you going to’’’ again acked Will iams. "Don’t you know the show is over and we’re locking up the hlusei" And ho dragged the man down a few steps Into the light of the lobby. Meanwhile the Intruder gesticulated wildly, his eyes rolled like marbles, aDd he hissed at Williams like a snake Suddenly he bent over to the usher. “I lost my voice," said he In an almost Inaudible whisper; “left it upstairs, Goin 1 up ter find it!" Will iams gaped in amassment, let go bis grip on the man and followed him upstairs. After a few moments' rummaging among the seats the stranger stooped down and picked up some - "Found your voice yet?" called Will iams. "Yes, I'm all right now !” The chief usher nearly dropped. The voiceless stranger spoke with all the metallic resonance of a bas soon. "What, the dickens is your voice made of, anyhow?" he asked as he piloted the stranger downstairs. "Silver!” replied he in the same stentorian tone. "See, here it is. I must have jerked it out with laughing, and I never missed it till I got outside. He pointed to an orifice at the side of his throat. The metal lips of a canula were gleaming there. Without the metal tube he was silent os the mummy of Humeses 11. of Egypt. Automatic Gambling. The coln-in-the-oriflce man Is still hard at it, says the New York Morning Advertieer. Up to date he has produced about one hundred of there psnnv catching devices, and among the recent ones are some admirable pieces of mech anism. His latest is a very olever affair on the automaton order, and is designed to attract those gentlemen who like to toy with fickle fort une in a homeopathic way. Beneath a glass semi-globe is seated the life size firure of a monkey With an unusually open countenance. The beast Is gotten up in an elaborate silk and satin costume, and is an ideal simian In every particular. In one hand he holds a small howl of gutla percha and in the other a dice box. When any one accepts the invitation upon the outside of the case to deposit a copper in the slot the monkey’s head begins to wobble from side to side in a highly derisive manner Sud denly he begins to shake the dice box, and with a sudden turn of his mechanical wrist throws five poker dice into the gutta percha bowl. They remain there long enough to allow the player outside to get a satisfactory view of them, and then the box drops to the edge of the bowl, the dice are turned into it and the monkey is ready for another throw. Asa money maker this little machine sur passes its predecessor* with ease and is irresist ably attractive to the lounger who has time and a pocketful of silver to spend. Little Mistake. The officious counter-jumper is an unmiti gated nuisance, but he flourishes and multi plies nevertheless, says the Chicago Mail. And of all seasons of tho year he is most numerous about the holidays. He so rarely gets hit just desserts that it is a pleasure to record one in stance where he did get it. To accommodate the holiday rush a State street Arm put in a large foroe of extras a few days ago. Yester day the proprietor while discussing the quality of a piece of goods with the agent of a New York house remarked that tho easiest way to prove his point would be to get a sample of the cloth In question. Excusing himself, he walked down to a counter presided over by one of the hands and asked to be shown a certain kind of goods. “There, that’s It!” exclaimed the pro prietor; “let me have a small sample of It, if you please, right away.” “We don’t do that kind of business here,” rudely replied the altitudinous young man. “What ’kind of business' don’t you do?” calmly asked the unknown employer. “We don’t give away samples of our goods." “0, don’t you? That's too bad. Perhaps, then, you wouldn’t mind giving ine a sample of your balr, for remembrance before I kick you into the street. If you don’t want to do that go down to the cashier’s desk, give him this card and ask him for a sample of your salary.” A Tricky Young Woman. Inrin Rusted tn Health and Home. Young Julius Jones loved Susan Slade, And oft In dulcet tones He vainly had besought the maid To take the name of Jones. “Wert thou but solid, then, be sure. ‘Twould tie all right," said she; “But, Mr. J., whilst thou are poor. Pray think no more of me." < Poor Jones was sad ; his coat was bad. His salary was worse: But hope suggested: “Jones, my lad. Just try the power of verse." He sat him down and wrote In rhyme How she was in her spring. And he in summer’s golden prime:. And all that sort of thing. The poem praised her balr and eyes, Her lips with honey laden. He wound it up, up in the skies. And mailed it to the maiden. She read It over, kept it clean, Put on her finest raiment, And took it to a magazine And got ten dollars' payment. He Was Not Much Good. Children’s ideas of usefulness in this world are primitive, to say the least, says the Boston Record. A Boston editor has a 5-year old boy who has pronounced views on this subject. He said the other dav at the table: "Papa, I wiah you were a bakeghop man!” "Why, my boy?” "Because then you could bring home cakes and things, an’ we could go iu and get cookies when we wanted to. Or if you were o meat man. or a grocery man, or a carpenter and made nice things, or a blacksmith shop maa— that would be awful fine. Say, papa, is it any good what you do?” A Youthful Idea. A South Side man took his little girl, just able to talk nicely, to the lake shore on Sunday afternoon, says Babyhood. The waves were gently rippling on the beach, and when her father was not looking the child managed to get one foot wet. She ran to her father with tears in her eyes and sobbed: "Papa, lake step on baby's foot.” D-PRICE’S ofilStt Used in Millions of Homes— 40 Years the Standard FLAVORING EXTRACTS. Grown Rapidly. Dr. Price’s Delicious Flavor ing Extracts, Vanilla, Lemon, Orange, Nectarine, etc., have grown rapidly in popular favor, as it is known that they are produced by extrac tion from the fruit, not made up with chemical poisons. They are natural flavors, obtained by anew process, which gives the most deli cate and grateful taste. Dr. Price’s Flavorings can be conscientiously commended as being just as represented, perfection in every possible respect. One trial will prove that their excellence is un equalled. ITEMS OF INTEREST. The rate of Infant mortality is enormous. In round numbers 5.000,000 babies never live long enough to talk: 5,000,000 more never have a chance to walK or run, and 5,000,000 more never get old enough to go to school. A pew years ago the owner of a river-side farm in Southern Indiana published a report which seemed to prove that, for a few weeks at least, birds of certain species are apt to hiber nate, like bats and squirrels. A number of laborers had been clearing a patch of wood at the river shore and came across several martins or chimney-swallows that had taken refuge in a hollow sycamore tree and appeared numb or half-dead with cold, but on being brought to a warm room revived and fluttered about the windows as if nothing had happened. In the way of recent antiseptic agents, an interesting addition is what has received the name of microcidine. a substance composed of 75 per cent, of naphthol of sodium, and 25 per cent, of naphthol aDd phenyl compounds. This Isa French preparation, and iB In the form of a white powder, soluble in three parts of water. The solution, which is of course inexpensive, is represented to be a really effective antiseptic, having the advantage of not only being non poisonous ore caustic, but without any Injurious efTect upon instruments or linen, and though Its antiseptic properties are rated as inferior to those of corrosive sublimate or naphthol, they are claimed to surpass those of carbolic and boracio acids ten and twenty times respectively —especially effective in dressing wounds. A benevolently disposed French oitizen wished to know the amount of truth contained in the complaints of sturdy beggars that they were willing to work it they could get anything to do or any one to employ them. This gentle man entered Into negotiations with some mer chants and manufacturers, and induced them to offer work at the rate of 4 francs (80 cents) a day to every person presenting himself furn nished with a letter of recommendation from him. In eight months 727 sturdy beggars came under his notice, all complaining that they had no work. Each of them was asked to come the following day to receive a letter which would enable him to get employment at 4 francs a day In an industrial establishment. More than one half (415) never came for the letter; a good many others (138) returned for the letter but never presented it Others who did present their letter worked half a day, de manded 2 francs, and were saen no more A few worked a whole day and then disappeared. In short, out of the whole 727 only eighteen were found at work at the end of the third day. Asa result of this experiment M. Monod con cludes that no more than one ablebodled beg gar in forty is luolined to work even If be is offered a fair remuneration for his services. A committee appointed to report on the famous Torre Nuova in the Plaza San Filipe, in the capital of Aragon, has Issued a pessimistic account. It is feared that this clock tower—a very fine example of the kind—will have to be pulled down. Excessive rain* and floods have caused a subsidence of soil and the grruotore is deemed unsafe. The construction of this lean ing tower was begnn in the fifteenth century, under the direction of two Spanish, one Jewish and two Moorish architects. It is octagonal in form, 300 teet high, 45 feet in diameter and leans about 10 feet out of its perpendicular. Stone steps, 260 in number, lead inside to the top gallery, whence a maguifleent aud beauti ful view is obtained over the city itself, the fertlie plains of Aragon, watered by the rapid flowing Ebro, and away to the north where the Pyrenees are seen. The edifioe, built of bricks, has at a distance a Moorish aspect, tho face of the structure be ing diapered with brick work, but tho design and execution are much coarser tnan are gener ally seen In purely v oorish buildings; the various windows, galleries, battlement* and turrets, together witn designs partly Byzantine, partly Arabesque, demonstrates iu mixed architecture. It has been stated that the lean ing of the tower was due to the caprioa of the architects, but an old crack In iu aide and a careful examination of the foundation led to the conclusion that it was want of care on the part of the builders. The Aragonese speak of the ancient crack as an old wound in its side, of which the Torre Nuova is now dying. This "old wound ■ was under treatment In the year iB6O, but an unfortunate Relapse threatens to result in an entire collapse. There is one very funny relic of by gone ages on a house in old Berlin. In the time of Frederick the Great’s father there were two rival blaoksmiths living across the road from each other. Each kept tally of the number and con dition of the ether’s patrons. It chanced one day that Frederick William 1., who was very foud of going about the country disguised to feel the nulse of his people, rode up to one of the blacksmiths to have his horse s shoe tight ened. The daughter of the blacksmith opposite seeing the exceedingly plain little personage on horseback, considered him beneath her envy and, to show tier contempt for him, made a horrible face, thrusting her tongue out as far as she could. Unfortunately, for what has to be shown to future generations, the damsel was no longer in the springtime of youth, nor was she dressed as a mo lest maiden should be before going to the window to make faces at strange men across the way. That day the king called together the wood carvers of Ber lin and offered a premium for the most hideous Fury's head and bust, giving them a few necessary points suggestive of the farrier lass. A few days later the blacksmith’s daughter thought they bai eternally and totally eclipsed their neighbor, for the king's state chariot drove up and stopped at her father’s door; but what was her horror when she be held the same plain little person who had stopped at the rival’s but a few days before and behind him a man bearing a Fury's head' the throat and breast showing pitilessly the ravages of time, the face horribly distorted and the tongue, long and sharp, thrnst out so far that it seemed only to bo another one of the many serpents that writhed about the head The woman stood petrified with consterna tion; but the petrifaction was soon changed to active fits when she heard the little man, in whim by that time she had recognized the king, give orders that the Fury should be nailed over the door, to remain there as long as wind and weather should spare the wood. And there it remains to this day, a lesson to rivals and a warning to petty spite. BAKIXO FOffDIK. HARD dARL Si! 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